For students at Lafayette Middle School — a low-rated, “inner-city” school with a majority low-income/black student body, many from single-parent households — the start of the school year was also an opportunity to begin the day with examples ...

It's good, it's bad and it's just plain crazy C'EST BONThe Acadiana Center for the Arts and the Lafayette Economic Development Authority have announced a new artist stipend program, ArtSpark, designed to offer financial aid to local artists ...

We need to face up to how the &ldquo;new New Orleans,&rdquo; so celebrated by the Mayor and the self-anointed civic elite, in fact amounts to a hostile assault on African-American families and the working poor ...